2.
Approval of the minutes from the 17 October 2013 Faculty Senate Meeting.

MOTIONMotion to approve the minutes from the 17 October 2013 Faculty Senate
meeting by .

SECOND

OUTCOMEUnanimous

3.Chat with Chuck – President Wight

A very special inauguration week

Five priorities from President Wight

1.
Keeping college affordable.

2.
Maintain a beautiful and sustainable Campus.

3.
Diversity - Important that diversity of campus reflects the diversity of the
community. The Board of
Trustee’s approved a proposal on a
LGBT Center on campus.

4.
Maintain strong ties with the community – Hill AFB, Ogden City and Community
boards.

5.
Faculty – Reimagine the ways we teach, come up with innovative ways of teaching
for the benefit of the students.

Building Projects

- Breaking ground on a new Public Safety Building
on the Northwest Corner of Campus.

Remodel of the Stewart Library – digitization of
collections and create new space for students. Improved student group areas,
small rooms for group study, a café to have food available.

Science Building – Ranked number 1 by the Board
of Regents.State building board
Ranked number 1.In a very good
position and we will get an additional amount of funding from the state and look
for the demolition of Buildings 3 and 4 starting in May 2014.

Higher Education Legislative Appropriations
Request.Will not know the results
until March, however, the request includes a 3%
increase in compensation for faculty and staff and a 9.5 % increase in benefit
funding.This was projected by PEHP.It is a normal increase in medical care and changes in coverage mandated
by the Affordable Care Act.

Distinctive Mission Funding
- Funding for new initiatives mostly to
do with student success. There is a 10
million dollar request and our share of that, if appropriated, would be 11% or
1.1 million.

Acute Equity Funding – Utah System of
Higher Education USHE)

Request from USHE in recent years have had to pay
a larger share of their education that in the past.

The state is unwilling to fund increases for
enrollment growth.Tuition increases
four times the rate of inflation.
Our tuition is low compared to national rates. The average tuition nationally is
$8000 – 8600 where WSU is at just under $5000 making it 40% lower than the
national average.

WSU is making a commit to use some of
that money to hold tuition increase to the normal rate of inflation.

The request from USHE is 69 million.Our share would be 6 million.
Somewhere in between is where we will land and we will work with what they give
us.

Q & A

Why do Higher Ed costs increase at four times the
rate of inflation?

Economic downturn states difficult time balancing
their budgets. Medicaid is the fastest growing part of the state budget
nationally.There no energy in
legislature to increase taxes They cut somewhere not fund enrollment growth for
eight years.Many states have
enrollment formulas they have to hold the line or raise taxes.Generally speaking it was the downturn in the economy and lowering of
taxes.

Some students get priced out of their educationwhich is bad for society.We
have the responsibility to do our part to keep costs low.

Q.
What is the construction north of Browning Center and North of the Lampros Hall?

It an area to honor the history of
WSU.Plaques on the down town campus
are being reproduced and placed on the wall.Students and faculty can be reminded of the history of this institution.On January 7 we will celebrate 125 anniversary.

The Program and
Course Proposals listed above were voted on as a package by the Faculty Senate.

Motion
Move to
approve the Program and Course Proposals as outlined on the Faculty Senate
agenda by Laura Anderson.

SecondTom Matthews

A friendly
amendment was made to pull the Honors2050 course proposal and Supply Chain
Management SCM4500 and 4550 course proposals to be discussed separately.This was approved by Laura Anderson and Tom Matthews
and the original motion was withdrawn.

Curriculum Voted on Separately from the Package

EDUCATION

HPHP - Melissa Masters

NUTR1240Exploration in Culinary Art and Science - New Course Proposal

DiscussionA friendly amendment was made to change the title of NUTR1240
to Exploration in Culinary Art andFood Science.Adding
the word “Food” to the title. There was no opposition to this amendment.

MotionMove to amend the title of NUTR1240 to “Exploration in Culinary Art and
Food Science” by Marek Matyjasik.

OutcomeUnanimous.

HONORS - Judy Elsley

HNRS2050Exploring Key Concepts in the Disciplines: Social Sciences - New Course
Proposal

DiscussionA friendly amendment was made to change the course description to call
out the Prerequisite: HNRS1520 in the course description of HNRS2050.

MOTIONMove to add Prerequisite: HNRS1520 in the course description of HNRS2050
with the approval of the Honors Director, Judy Elsley.If she agrees, the proposal is approved, if she disagrees, the proposal
will return to the University Curriculum Committee for further discussion.Motion made by Brent Horn.

OutcomeUnanimous.

BUSINESS &
ECONOMICS

Business Administration -- Sebastian
Brockhaus

SCM4500Supply Chain Relational Strategies - New Course Proposal

SCM4550Strategic Supply Chain Design - New Course Proposal

Discussion

Why are there so
many prerequisites to this course.
These two courses are capstone courses.

BSAD2899 is a
better way to show the business foundations instead of the Business foundation.

Course
description goes into the catalog if this is incorrect then Cattracks will be
incorrect.

Registrar is okay
as long as Business Foundations is replaced with BSAD2899 on the prerequisites
for SCM4500 and 4550.

MOTIONMove to change Business Foundations with BSAD2899 as prerequisite for
SCM4500 and 4550